English Literature and Media Communications BA (Hons)

English Literature

Literature is diverse. Every text we pick up gives us a different perspective on the world.

Our innovative English Literature degree has been designed to enable you to acquire specialised subject knowledge while developing practical and professional skills that you can apply to contemporary challenges, issues and debates.

Our English Literature course will introduce you to an incredible range of literary worlds. From classic texts to new and unfamiliar writing, we’ll ask you to think differently about what ‘literature’ can be and to explore original ways of reading and analysing it. We’ll also ask you to place your reading in wider contexts, and to draw on other disciplines to deepen your understanding and sharpen your insights.

We have expertise in a wide range of periods, literary genres and approaches to the study of words and writing; and our teaching staff share a commitment to excellent teaching and to offering you the best possible experience during your time with us.

Media Communications

Explore how the platforms, audiences and representations of the global media industries transform society for the better, and learn to communicate new ideas to audiences.

You’ll explore the relationships between media audiences and representations, between media industries and creative practices. Engaging with media businesses, charities and digital agencies, you’ll graduate with the media and communications skills needed to rethink the media as a force for change.

Shaped by our leading research in gender and representation, multi-platform media and digital technologies, film and TV industries and game and music cultures, you’ll build up a portfolio of research and research-led media artefacts and work towards a final-year creative industry project that communicates your ideas to audiences. Our media and communication graduates have gone on to work in areas such as digital marketing, social media, education, PR and media policy.